ANS Executive

The Association of Nursing Students (ANS) Executive Committee is a representative committee of nursing and midwifery students from across the UK who campaign on your behalf.

The ANS Executive Committee

The Committee has a voice in creating RCN policy at a national and local level, influencing the nursing education agenda and making a difference to nursing and midwifery students.

The Committee is given both financial and staff support for its work; namely nurse advisers and a student administrator.

The Committee is elected by RCN student members each year and is made up of:

two student members of RCN Council
two members from Scotland
two members from Wales
two members from Northern Ireland
one member from each of the nine English regions.

The purpose of the ANS Executive Committee:

to provide opportunities for RCN student members to meet to consider matters relevant to students undertaking pre-registration education
to promote activities that will assist nursing and midwifery students to keep abreast of change and to contribute to advances in nursing and to the promotion of high standards of nursing practice
to promote activities that will assist nursing and midwifery students to increase their professional and political awareness of, and contribute to, developments in the profession
to consider issues of importance to nursing and midwifery students in relation to pre-registration education and to other health care students
to encourage all nursing and midwifery students to be in membership of the RCN
to encourage all student members to be involved in the activities of the ANS and RCN at all levels – local, regional and national.